Media skills development:
Before I started the As media course I did not have a lot of
skills in creating things through Photoshop. This shows in the first project
that we did to create a perfume advert for a magazine. The advert that I
created had two images layered over each other as well as some text. In this
you can see that I was not confident in using Photoshop. Also from this project
and my college magazine I can see that my photography skills needed to be
improved.
Digital technologies:
How I developed in using digital technologies. In creating
the music magazine I used some different digital technologies. To create the
front cover and contents page I used Photoshop. There is a big difference
between my college magazine cover and the cover of the music magazine showing
that I developed a few skills in this. I also learnt how to use Microsoft
publisher to create a double page spread for my music magazine. I have
developed skills in taking photos. For example better framing and angles. While
creating my music magazine I also used websites such as Prezi to make my
research and evaluation more interesting. Throughout creating the music
magazine I put all of the work onto blogger. This allowed me to add photos and
videos that would help in the research and planning and also when evaluating.
Creativity:
How I have developed in creativity. While creating my
perfume advert I did not have a huge range of ideas to choose from. Therefor my
final product was not as good as it could have been. Whereas in my music
magazine I had more ideas and looked at different layouts to get the best
possible that I could. I also used images that I found on google to create mock
ups of the different designs. From my college magazine I can see that I have
developed a better idea of the colours that go well together. And also learnt
to have three main colours for the whole magazine. I also learnt that most
magazines have a house style to make it recognisable to their readers. I had to
create one of these when making my music magazine.
Research and planning:
How I have developed in research and planning. In the
perfume advert project I looked at existing products and analysed them for
their conventions before planning my own advert. I did not really research into the target
audience. To create the music magazine more research had to be done into things
such as genre, target audience and existing products so that the final product
would fit to its target audience well and would be something they would choose. In the research I analysed three different
music magazine covers, contents pages and double page spreads to see the
conventions. The conventions were different depending on what genre of music
the magazine was for.
Post-production:
How I have developed in post-production. After the first
couple of drafts of the music magazine we got feedback from a few different
people to improve the work. For example different ideas about how to edit the
photos in a better way and to move the text around so that it would be seen
better.
Using conventions from real media texts:
How I have developed in using conventions. In my perfume
advert I used some conventions that I found in existing products but did not
really understand why they were there. When researching my music magazine I
paid closer attention to the conventions of the music magazine as well as the
conventions of the genre of music. This meant that I had a better understanding
and made decisions for things such as costume based on this.
In conclusion Over the course of the year I learnt
and developed skills in things such as research and planning through better
analysing of existing products and digital technology of cameras and photoshop
etc. These are things that I will be able to use and develop further in this
next years coursework.
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